%0 Journal Article %T Treatment with Saccharomyces boulardii and Escherichia coli Nissle is safe and associated with reduced nosocomial transmission of vanB vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium on an early rehabilitation ward in Germany: a retrospective analysis %A Beate Rie£¿ %A Guido Werner %A Ingo Klare %A Rabea Siegmund %A Stefan Borgmann %J Archive of "Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management". %D 2019 %R 10.2147/TCRM.S179208 %X According to the WHO vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) belongs to the microorganisms for which new antibiotics are urgently needed. Depending on the type of vancomycin resistance vanA gene VRE is differentiated from vanB VRE and other types. In this retrospective analysis the results of VRE surveillance performed at a German tertiary hospital with approximately 1,200 beds between 2013 and 2017 are shown %K microbiota %K oligoclonal spread %K outbreak %K probiotics %K vanB %K bacterial spread %K circuit model of bacterial transmission %K vanA %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6398405/